Welcome to Nordes 2013 th e 5th biannual Nordes conference; welcome to Malmรถ and Copenhagen! Since its establishment in 2005, the Nordic design research conference, Nordes, has established itself as perhaps the most important scholarly event in the field in the Nordic countries, and over the years, Nordes has attracted still more participants from the rest of the world. The ambition of the Nordes design research conference is to develop into an international conference of the highest academic standards with close reference to design practice as well as to the more traditional research approaches to design; a conference which gathers scholars from the so-called artistic institutions as well as from the universities, the business schools, and the polytechnical universities, including also independent scholars and still other environments. Nordes wishes to be a vital, inspirational forum in a still emergent field of design research, where the first generation of pioneers is still active, where promising...
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